NY Times hires Hernandez from Reuters to be a graphics editor

Marco Hernandez

The New York Times has hired Marco Hernandez from Reuters to be a graphics editor.

He will start in January.

Hernandez most recently worked as a data visualization developer at Reuters in Singapore, where he covered everything from the Kabul evacuation to wildfires to a Chinese mining rescue to the Beirut explosion. He also visualized the massive number of plastic bottles sold and mapped the epic journey of an immense iceberg.

Before Reuters, he was the digital design director at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and a senior infographic designer at La Nación in his native Costa Rica.

He received a postgraduate degree in graphic arts from the Science and Arts University of Costa Rica, where he later taught as a professor.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.